How to spot a Drama Queen

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A drama queen is a type of attention wh*re, who is overemotional, exaggerative and prone to theatrical displays of melodrama. Their feelings range from ecstatic to suicidal, but rarely is there any middle ground between these two extremes.

Drama queens also frequently employ random capitalization of certain terms or ideas to better reinforce their "importance" or romanticism. Although male drama queens exist , the female persuasion of this creature is by far the most prevalent and widespread, and thus will be the primary focus here.

Center of the universe
One of the biggest traits of the drama queen is that anything and everything is about her. Nothing else matters, it's all about her needs, her wants, and how: "it's all about ME!". The drama queen lives off of attention, for it is her number 1 priority....Hell, if attention took a physical form she would gleefully have it slammed into every orifice repeatedly like a massive gangbang.

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The interesting factor in the case of the psychology of the female drama queen, is that the amount of drama they generate on the internets is always directly inverse to the amount of drama surrounding them IRL. Everything becomes serious ******* business. Thus, such a mundane event as, say, opening a bag of Doritos, triggers drama of massive, epic vortex-like proportions, pulling all and sundry into it's black hole-like grasp when posted to the LiveJournal of the drama queen in question and will usually include such parameters as:

The crinkle of the bag opening caused her to get into a fight with her boyfriend (or parents if a basement dweller), and said confrontation escalating to the point of physical/sexual abuse, broken furnishings and the possible buggering of any small animals within reach. The reality is that she was asked to keep the crinkling down because her baby brother/sister just went down for a nap.
Caused her to have an attack of massive self doubt regarding her weight and/or her placement in the capitalist system as a consumer whore for brand name products, which invariably results in a YouTube "confession", usually with much sniffling, mascara that has been streamed by tears and unintelligible breaks in speech. Warning: May also be accompanied by really bad "poetry", if said drama queen is of that persuasion.
Failing any creativity, will be linked with an "odd or unexplained" occurrence in her vicinity, such as at the precise moment the bag was opened, the lights flickered and an odd scraping was heard in the walls of the room.

Further delving into the shallow psyche of the drama queen, given the above, is exactly how closely they resemble the "attention whore". The overwhelming evidence suggests that the two at some point have engaged in a kind of "cross-pollination" making identification in the field somewhat difficult, but if observed long enough the differences become easy to spot. The most telling piece of evidence, is that an attention whore will engage in anything that will generate attention from any party on the internets, whereas a drama queen "specializes" in select acts of drama generation. For example, an attention whore will use their Amazon.com wishlist, their illness or the illness of someone (anyone) else, a bad break up, the fact that their cat had kittens or whatever to make sure that the sun never sets on them. A drama queen, on the other hand, will craft and tailor what amounts to a drama generating chaos engine, specifically targeted at online communities that she belongs to, assuring that she will be the burning sun in the center of said community for months to come.

Conflicts and disappointments are natural side effects of the human experience, but for a certain personality type known as a "drama queen," life's little setbacks can trigger explosive emotional outbursts and other irrational behaviors. The term "drama queen," or less frequently, "drama king" is usually applied to someone with a demanding or overbearing personality who tends to overreact to seemingly minor incidents.
A drama queen often views the world in absolutes, and only has two settings on her emotional control button; zero and ten. Psychologists might describe a drama queen or king as a neurotic personality with histrionic tendencies, meaning they tend to become needlessly dramatic whenever order is disrupted.

A drama queen is notoriously self-centered and self-absorbed, often viewing friends and relatives as lesser beings assigned to take care of her personal needs. A drama queens worst enemy is solitude. Others who have experienced the drama queen's sudden outbursts in the past may have a feeling of walking on egg shells around her, not wanting to be the person who delivers upsetting news or offends the drama queen in any way.

A drama queen could also be described as a diva, a neurotic and self-centered perfectionist prone to sudden demands and outbursts. However, a diva is also usually considered to be exceptionally talented, which is not always the case with a drama queen. A drama queen may be jealous or envious of others, which could make any personal failings even more painful and trigger another round of emotional outbursts or irrational thoughts of revenge. In a drama queen's world, people can be either with her or against her; there are no stages in between.

Many parents find themselves in the unenviable position of dealing with a young drama queen. This can be a difficult situation for other siblings, since their own needs may take a back seat to those of the drama queen. Some parents choose to acquiesce to a drama queen rather than provoke the inevitable tantrum or histrionic outburst. By confronting the would-be drama queen's selfish behavior directly, however, parents can demonstrate that a child's demanding or manipulative personality is not enough to force them into doing anything. A young drama queen's worst fear is to be ignored or become powerless over others.

In adult life, being considered a drama queen or a drama king is generally not a good thing. Co-workers or superiors may fear confronting a drama queen or king at the workplace, since he or she usually does not take personal criticism very well. A drama queen may find herself out of the social or political loop at work, since her tendency to overreact or lash out at others irrationally makes it difficult for others to trust her with sensitive information
 

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